From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Libre-RISCV General Development <libre-riscv-dev@lists.libre-riscv.org>
Subject: Re: [libre-riscv-dev] daily kan-ban update 08mar2020
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 16:25:55 +0100
Message-ID: <CAPweEDxBon96+0GaFutee0JHoqGw_m07aEQAE7CF21rjBoMqHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <175BEA4F-5971-47BE-B5CE-2821BF430AE2@gmail.com>
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 3:03 PM Michael N <mtnolan2640@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On May 8, 2020, at 9:28 AM, Michael Nolan <mtnolan2640@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Now that I have branches working in the simulator, I was thinking of starting work on the integer ALU. Taking a look at alu_hier.py, I think I'll keep the interface but replace the implementation with a pipelined one.
> >
> > --Michael
> >
> I noticed alu_hier was nicely broken up into different function units (adder, branch unit, multiplier, etc.).
yes, with an "op" - which in our case will basically be "decoder.InternalOp"
> Is there a nice way you know of to do that with the nmutil pipeline stages?
yyyess.... except it's too complicated to explain right just this
minute. raise the question in the bugreport.
> Like a way to merge stage 1 of the adder pipe with stage one of the branch pipe to get the stage 1 of the alu?
ok if you are talking about *outside* of ReservationStations, you are
mixing "purposes". the Branch pipeline *does not* interact - at all -
with the ALU pipeline.
can you look again at Mitch's ScoreBoard Mechanics1.pdf
damnit this needs to be on the bugreport, i haven't got time, 10m until meeting
see page 8, diagram at the top.
Those 4 batches of Function Units are *completely separate*. they do
*NOT* interact.
basically, the first ALU, do it entirely as combinatorial just as in
alu_hier.py and assume only one clock cycle. leave out MUL and DIV
because those i believe need to be minimum 2 stages for MUL and a
*lot* for DIV.
actually you know what, screw it: make separate ones for MUL and DIV,
pretty much exactly like in that diagram on p8. we're doing a
radically different design as a proof-of-concept.
* add sub neg compare logical shift all go in their own
Reservation-Station-style FunctionUnit
* MUL in its own separate RS/FU
* DIV likewise
l.
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2020-05-08 10:56 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 10:59 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 13:51 ` Yehowshua
2020-05-08 15:16 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 17:25 ` Staf Verhaegen
2020-05-08 22:23 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 13:28 ` Michael Nolan
2020-05-08 14:03 ` Michael N
2020-05-08 15:25 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2020-05-08 20:47 ` Michael Nolan
2020-05-08 22:48 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 15:10 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 15:21 ` Michael Nolan
2020-05-08 15:27 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 20:27 ` Yehowshua
2020-05-08 21:39 ` Jacob Lifshay
2020-05-08 22:34 ` [libre-riscv-dev] daily kan-ban update 08may2020 Jacob Lifshay
2020-05-08 23:09 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-09 0:31 ` Yehowshua
2020-05-09 8:25 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-09 14:33 ` Yehowshua
2020-05-08 22:45 ` [libre-riscv-dev] daily kan-ban update 08mar2020 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 22:41 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2020-05-08 20:38 Alain D D Williams
2020-05-08 20:47 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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